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  • Marathi version of No Entry in offing

    Marathi version of No Entry in offing

    MUMBAI: Bollywood hit No Entry will have a Marathi version. The remake of Boney Kapoor‘s film will go on floors tomorrow, celebrating Gudi Padwa, the Maharashtrian New Year.

    Titled No Entry Pudhe Dhoka Aaahey!, the film will be produced by Premnath Rajagopalan and Nikhil Saini under the banner of Underground Films.

    Elaborating on whether he sold the remake rights, Kapoor said: “I know the producers Rajagopalan and Saini for a long time. After they showed an inclination to make a Marathi remake of No Entry, I gave him the NOC to make the film.”

    The producers have enlisted reputed Marathi actors like Bharat Jadhav, Ankush Choudhari, Kranti Redkar, Saie Tamhankar, Aniket Vishwasrao, Sai Lokur, Manava Naik and Paddy Kambli to play the lead roles essayed in the original by Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Lara Dutta Bipasha Basu, Fardeen Khan, Esha Deol, Celina Jaitley and others.

    The principal shooting of the film is scheduled to begin in May 2012 in Goa and Mumbai under director Milind Arun Kavde.

  • Passing the Copyright Amendment Bill will resolve many issues

    Passing the Copyright Amendment Bill will resolve many issues

    MUMBAI: How does one react on the issue of copyright when a person appeals to a Court to remove a dialogue of the Salman Khan starrer ‘Veer’ because this person had uttered it some years earlier?

    The filmmaker had to finally give in after which the dialogues were indeed deleted from the film on grounds that ‘the expression of the person while uttering the dialogue was copied.’

    Said Anand And Anand Managing Director Rahul Ajatshatru, “Our lawyers and judges are not well versed with the Copyright Act while talking about the subject or passing an order on this topic. It is time the Copyright Amendment Bill is passed.”

    Agreeing, Film Federation of India Secretary General Supran Sen said, “Some years ago the Mumbai High Court had said that if a particular video of a film is shown at home nothing happens, but if it is shown in society then copyright is infringed. This issue was challenged in the Madras High Court that said the Bombay High Court stand was wrong. Later it held that special courts should be set up to hear these matters.”

    The matter led to a lot of debate after which it was decided to come out with a Copyright Amendment Bill. But though this has been through the Lok Sabha, it is yet to get the approval of the Rajya Sabha. “Hopefully this would be done after the Budget session of Parliament,” opined Amarchand Managing Partner Shardul Shroff.

    The views were expressed during a discussion on the process of IP transfer and its legal ramifications in the specific case of film remakes during the FICCI Frames. RCL Motion Pictures head and producer Jagdish Rajpurohit, UTV Motion Pictures creative director Amar Butala, French Embassy, TV & Cinema head Deborah Benattar and International Federation of Film Producers Association former Director General Bertrand Mouiller also spoke.

    Referring to RCL Motion Pictures obtaining the copyright of the French film ‘L’emmerduer’, Rajpurohit said:” “When we approached the French film producers, they were a little inquisitive, but decided to give us the remaking rights after some thought.”

    But they will decide on associating with the Hindi remake ‘Bumboo’ after they come down to India and see whether the makers have followed the content verbatim or have deviated from the same. “I am sure they will be happy after watching the film and associate with our film,” observed Rajpurohit. The film releases in India on 31 July.

    Butala said: “These days things have changed a lot and producers don’t want to go to Court on matters of copyright infringement. They sort the matter amicably.”

  • Irish film fest from 23 to 26 Feb in Mumbai

    Irish film fest from 23 to 26 Feb in Mumbai

    MUMBAI: Relations between Bollywood and the Irish government have been growing ever since parts of YRF’s Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif-starrer Ek Tha Tiger was shot in Dublin, the capital of Ireland.


    Banking on the excellent relations, the inaugural Irish Film Festival of India will be held in Mumbai from 23 to 26. The festival will follow the theme of ‘The Writing Irish’ to celebrate in film the long and rich heritage of Irish literature.


    Films that would be shown in the festival include The Dead (1987), Krapp’s Last Tape (2000), The Butcher Boy (1997) and Circle of Friends (1995).


    The festival has been founded by Marc-Ivan O’Gorman of Cleverality Productions with the support of the Irish Embassy in India, the Irish Film Institute, Enterprise Ireland and Culture Ireland.

  • Salman Khan tipped to replace Amitabh Bachchan

    Salman Khan tipped to replace Amitabh Bachchan

    MUMBAI: Amitabh Bachchan, who has played the narrator or sutradhar‘s role in many films, has excused himself from being one in the Hollywood film John Carter.

    Earlier, when the makers of the film approached the superstar for the sutradhar‘s role for the Hindi version, he decided to do the film.But the actor‘s current health condition has left him with no choice but to back out of the project.

    It is now being said that Salman Khan will now don the hat of the sutradhar for the film.

    However, Khan hasn‘t been able to seal the deal as he is currently in Cuba shooting for Yash Raj Film‘s Ek Tha Tiger.

  • Mahesh Manjrekar’s Hindi version of anti-education film with Akshay Kumar

    Mahesh Manjrekar’s Hindi version of anti-education film with Akshay Kumar

    MUMBAI: Wanting to do a Hindi version of his anti-education Marathi film Shikashanachya Aaicha Gho for almost a year with Salman Khan, Mahesh Manjrekar has now decided to go ahead with the project with Akshay Kumar.

    Manjrekar is furious after he read of the gruesome incident of a 15-year old student stabbing his teacher in Chennai to death. Said Manjrekar in a statement, “After what that 15-year old boy did to his teacher in Chennai, I‘ve to do the Hindi version of the film fast. What are the pressures on a child that make him so allergic to school life and teachers? What could‘ve provoked that boy to stab his teacher in Chennai? My film is very relevant to the situation that school-going children face. I need Akshay to take the message of a child‘s right to exercise his career options and to be freed of peer pressure to the maximum number of people.”

    Kumar will to play the role of the tyrannical father who realises too late that his son‘s mind and heart are meant for cricket and not for formal education.

    It may be remembered that though Khan was interested in doing the project, he was unable to do so because of date constraints.

  • UTV denies buying rights of Dabaang 2

    UTV denies buying rights of Dabaang 2

    MUMBAI: UTV Motion Pictures has rubbished rumours going around in trade circles about it purchasing the rights of the sequel to Salman Khan-Sonakshi Sinha starrer Dabangg 2.

    Refuting all talk that the production house has picked up the rights of the Salman Khan film for Rs 1.40 billion including the print and advertising costs, UTV Motion Pictures has denied it totally and issued a statement.

    “There have been irresponsible reports in certain sections of the media that UTV has bought the rights for Dabangg 2 for Rs 1.40 billion, despite us clearly denying this. We would like to clarify that UTV has not purchased the rights of the movie in question. We have been very open about announcing our new projects and communicated them to the media and will continue to do so. We hope this puts all speculations to rest, ” reads an official statement from UTV Motion Pictures.

    The 2010 action film was directed by Abhinav Kashyap and produced by Arbaaz under the Arbaaz Khan Productions.

    To be directed by producer Arbaaz Khan himself, Dabaang-2 would see the appearance of our ex-cricket captain Sourav Ganguly in a guest role. Ganguly will reprise the character of a player and the proposed name of the character that he would be playing is called Daddu Singh.

    The sequel is expected to go on floors in March and the film has been scheduled to release during Christmas this year.

  • AMPTP locks horns with FWICE over ban on Galani

    AMPTP locks horns with FWICE over ban on Galani

    MUMBAI: The Association of Motion Pictures and Television Programmers and Producers (AMPTPP) has slammed the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) over its ban on producer Vijay Galani who is said to be in a dispute with Salman Khan on the latter’s payment issues.

    Galani has been reportedly accused of not paying Khan Rs 150 million for the actor‘s role in his 2010 production. Following Khan’s plaint with the FWICE, it passed a non-cooperation directive against Galani which implies that he cannot make another film in Bollywood until he resolves the dispute with the actor.

    The AMPTP believes that the non-cooperation directive issued by the Federation is illegal. It has alleged that the FWICE had unilaterally announced non-cooperation without holding a joint meeting with producers. "It is illegal and Galani has told us that he will be taking legal action against FWICE," president of AMPTPP Ratan Jain has reportedly said.

    "The producer has told us that he does not owe Salman any money. The actor has not provided any documentary evidence to show that Galani has to pay him Rs 150 million," Jain averred.

  • Guild to honour Manoj Kumar with lifetime achievement award

    Guild to honour Manoj Kumar with lifetime achievement award

    MUMBAI: As part of its first endeavour to celebrate the centenary of Indian cinema, the Film And Television Producers Guild of India headed by filmmaker Ramesh Sippy will felicitate producer-director-actor Manoj Kumar with the lifetime achievement honour at the Apsara award function today.

    Reacting to the honour he is to be bestowed, the Padma Shri awardee, said, “It‘s a great feeling and a proud moment to be honoured by the people who know filmmaking.”

    The filmmaker, who has always been part of meaningful cinema of which patriotism was a byproduct, is soon going to announce his next project titled DNA Report.

    As far as the casting is concerned, the reputed director hopes to cast Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

    The Apsara award is scheduled to be held at Yash Raj Studios this evening.

  • Ormax Media study ranks Singham top favourite in 2011

    Ormax Media study ranks Singham top favourite in 2011

    MUMBAI: The Rohit Shetty directed Singham is the top favourite film of Bollywood audiences in 2011 while the Zoya Akhtar film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and the Imtiaz Ali directed Rockstar take the next two positions respectively, according to a recent study.

    The next three positions are occupied by Salman Khan’s Ready and Bodyguard just a notch ahead of Shah Rukh Khan’s Don 2, according to Ormax Media’s consumer-based yearend report titled ‘Front Page 2011’.

    The latter half of the chart consists of more experimental films that lacked a big star. In particular, No One Killed Jessica performs creditably at No. 7. It is the only film in this list that had an opening weekend of less than Rs 150 million and yet found appreciation on the strength of its content.

    Commenting on the results, Ormax Media CEO Shailesh Kapoor said, “There are various award shows that give away Best Film awards. However, this ranking is based on structured consumer data from more than 32,000 cinegoers across India. There can’t be a bigger award than this!”

    The ranking of the top ten favourite Bollywood films of 2011 was derived on the basis the ‘Word of Mouth’ (WOM) score of the film, using data collected through consumer research throughout the year. The WOM score represents the percentage of audiences who liked the film enough to recommend it strongly to their friends.

    While box office business is heavily influenced by the opening weekend of a film, the WOM score reflects the audience feedback on the content alone, irrespective of the marketing or the distribution of the film.

  • Sajid Nadiadwala developing Judwaa franchise

    Sajid Nadiadwala developing Judwaa franchise

    MUMBAI: Sajid Nadiadwala has plans to develop an entire Judwaa franchise, with every subsequent chapter featuring a different leading man.

    Confirming the news Nadiadwala said, ” I will indeed be making a series of Judwaa films. But the whole idea is to have different actors playing double roles every time. Like after Salman in Judwaa, it is Saif in Judwaa 2. Similarly, I will have an actor who havsn‘t played double roles before in Judwaa 3 and so on.”

    Word is going around that Ranbir Kapoor has agreed to play the lead in Judwaa 3.

    Explaining as to why did he take so long to come up with the sequel of the Salman Khan-starrer, Nadiadwala said, “”After Judwaa, I waited for a long time for the same Salman-David Dhawan team to come up with a winning sequel. That was a tactical error and the franchise got stuck in a creative deadlock until Sajid decided he would carry the ‘Judwaa’ concept forward.”

    Sajid Khan will direct Judwaa 2 that is expected to go on the floors later this year.